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Site Number 49
Name KM 49
Site Name Akkabir
Description Akkabir
Survey Date 1993-06-10
Survey Year 1993
Collectors (Initials) All
Map sheet no. 37SCB
Grid Location EW 201.0
Grid Location NS 259.0
Height 14.0
Length 100.0
Width 50.0
Site Size (1) 0.5
Local Landmarks NW to Emirler, artesian well drilling site, single tree with spring, Gedikli (Karahöyük) to se? or some other major site
Setting Corn fields, edge of barren hills and rocky outcrops, cotton fields to the N. and SE.
Site Description Stony oval mound much spread out over fields, probably set into hillside on south, photos 25 and 26
Collection Comments Good late material, possibly a sherd of Chalcolithic or EBA
Collection Summary Terracotta
Flint count 28
Neolithic note Flints only//(CE has it listed in her 12-02 diss revisions as positive attribution - light colored block)
Ubaid note one hatched Ubaid sherd pulled by (SC 9-98 for CE)//(CE has it listed in her 12-02 diss revisions as positive attribution)
Chalcolithic note (CE has it listed in her 12-02 diss revisions as positive 2011 confirmed LLC- light colored block)
Early Bronze Age plain note jar shoulder with radial burnish
Hellenistic Late Roman note Terra sigillata or imitation, rope impressed sherd Hellenistic dark on light bowl rim, Roman cooking pot sherds, heavy calcite tempered red-buff ware
Medieval note fine incised, green glaze, incised handles// 9thc. glazed and other (SC 9-98); Donald Whitcomb confirms Islamic (2001)
Subregion Southwestern Valley
Neolithic True
Halaf, Ubaid, Uruk True
Chalcolithic True
Early Bronze True
Early Bronze, Middle Bronze False
Middle Bronze False
Late Bronze False
Iron Age False
Hellenistic, Roman True
Medieval True
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Suggested Citation

Elizabeth Carter. (2025) "KM 49 from Asia/Turkey/Kahramanmaraş Survey Area". In Kahramanmaraş Survey. Elizabeth Carter (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/e0a92888-2c43-4cf8-99d5-f5ae71c0708f>

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